"You think, if only he could have pulled through," Vedder says of the powerful footage Cameron Crowe recovered while researching "Pearl Jam Twenty."

TORONTO -- Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder was drawn back Saturday to the moment a backstage camera caught him slow-dancing with Nirvana's Kurt Cobain at the 1992 Video Music Awards.

“I saw it for the first time today,” Vedder told a press conference Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival for Pearl Jam Twenty, Cameron Crowe’s chronicle of the legendary band’s chaotic climb to stardom.

Nirvana frontman Cobain and Pearl Jam’s Vedder at the time trash-talked one another in public, each claiming they were kings of the early 1990s Seattle grunge band scene.

It’s grainy footage, but it captures the grunge frontmen setting aside their public smackdown and sharing a dance.

“For a second the camera is blurred, and then you see Kurt look over, and go like this, and it’s not like saying don’t tell anybody, or keep a lid on this private moment,” Vedder told a hushed media in Toronto.

“It’s because on the stage above us Eric Clapton was playing 'Tears of Heaven,'” he added.